What did you do during the Shutdown?

[Drauger9]

Oh really? Sweet, I'm going to have to check it out on my next day off. I wont be able to spend any money on it. Until my next paycheck though.

I should have an old account somewhere. My RL friend and me checked it out soon after CoH closed but he didn't like it and I didn't really spend much time playing it.

*Edited to add*

Might as well download it in the background  while I play DCU LOL!

[Drauger9]

@Thunder Gloves

Which AT did you start out with? Range, Melee, Tank or support? Does it matter?

One of the Melee ATs seems like it has storm type of powers.

[Thunder Glove]

I played a Glacier, but only for a little while. I subscribed in order to get Freeform characters.  The game is SO much better that way.

It's been literally a year since I last subscribed to CO, so I don't remember my exact build for my pseudo-MM, but I remember he had Experimental Blaster, Medical Nanites, Support Drones, Munitions Bots, Orbital Cannon (with Anvil of Dawn advantage), and Molecular Self-Assembly from Gadgeteering, along with Dust Devil from Wind (to replace Tornado) and Ball Lightning from Electricity (to replace Thunderstorm).  I forget which Energy Builder he had, but it was one of the two from Gadgeteering.  I seem to recall taking an out-of-theme heal, because the Medical Nanites and Support Drones couldn't always keep up with enemy damage (particularly in Alerts), and I was planning on taking Wind Barrier as my block (to simulate CoH's Hurricane power)

Primary Super-Stat was Int, secondaries were, IIRC, Con and Rec.  Specializations were in the Intelligence Tree (of course), the Commander Tree (the Pet Buffing tree), and Protector Tree (mostly for Unrelenting).  Role was usually Hybrid.

I was also going to add Command Animals from Supernatural Bestial (with the dinosaur skin customization) to represent mad cloning experiments, but they slowed my game down too much, and I had to remove them.  If the game hadn't been so slow, I would probably have also added Arctic Beast from Ice (again, dinosaur skin customization) for a total of seven controllable pets and two not-quite-pets (that would be Dust Devil and Ball Lightning, which aren't true pets, but they do follow enemies around and change targets if the first one dies.  The Anvil of Dawn advantage makes Orbital Cannon do that, as well)

Even so, he was a surprising amount of fun.  The pet control wasn't anywhere near as fine as CoH, but there was some.  I particularly liked putting them on Assist, targeting a distant enemy, and then charging up Orbital Cannon.  The pets would wait by my side until the Orbital Cannon went off, at which point they'd charge in and start blasting.  (If I put them on Attack, they'd charge in as soon as I targeted the enemy)

CO is actually great if you want to go pet-crazy.  With a Freeform slot, you can literally take ALL the controllable pet powers on a single if you want.  In addition to the ones I already mentioned, there's Air Elemental, Void Horror, Tyrranon's Familiar, Ritual of Arcane Summoning, Ritual of Primal Summoning, Ritual of Radiant Summoning, and Ritual of Ebon Summoning, and that's not even counting uncontrollable pets or attacks that sort of act like pets (like Dust Devil). You wouldn't have enough Advantage Points to max them all out, and your computer may overheat and explode from the mob you'd have following you around all the time, but you could take them all. :D

Really, even though I didn't like it anywhere near as much as CoH, I'd still be playing it if they had a decent client that ran at full speed.  I did actually like it for what it was, though I didn't enjoy it anywhere near as much as CoH.  (I really should have played the pseudo-MM more, but I kept trying to get the pseudo-Brute and the pseudo-Controller to work, and they just didn't)

[Drauger9]

Thanks for the reply.

I'm going to have to experiment with that. Even if it's moderately close to an MM it'd be worth it to me. (I really love MMs LOL).

Thanks for all the info too, I saved this to my favorites incase it get's buried so I'll have it handy. :)

[Elfin]

1. Where were you at the last moments? I was on the steps in Atlas, after having tons of fun with the Rangle Ship Raid. I had made a toon for it called Rangle Me This. At the very end though I was on my I guess you would call Mains on bot accounts Elfin Medic, and Zanco. I really never had mains though. I had lots of 50s, and played them all a lot. I had parked several toons in the secret room below PI. The Matrix Room.

2. Who were you with? My Australian buddies Jsonic, and Speeedy, and the whole Rangle crew on Skype.

3. What server were you on? Justice server. When Justice went dark I did head over to the test server for several minutes till it went dark as well. I was in RWZ when test went dark.

4. What's the last thing you remember someone saying? Like someone else said I have a screen shot of it but can not remember. Probably something about a Rangle Plot LOL

5. What were your thoughts and feelings at the final moment of truth? I don't remember I just know I was very Sad. I thought I was going to move on to DCUO, I already had a payed account, but I lost interest pretty fast. COH apparently was the only MMO for me. Its the only one I ever played. After Shut down I tried CO, DCUO, STO, and SWOR, but I lost interest pretty fast. My replacement for COH ended up being a Harley Motorcycle. The winter months are rough though cause I can't ride.